Naomi Waring

Naomi is a filmmaker and London Film School graduate whose recent work includes Milk—executive produced by Sienna Miller and supported by Uncertain Kingdom’s Belief Fund—and Privileged, a BBC Three and BBC iPlayer film produced by Out of Orbit and Northern Ireland Screen. She is currently developing her debut feature Drifters, selected for the internationally recognised Less is More (LIM) programme.

Her films are rooted in working-class communities and explore youth culture, care systems, masculinity, and the female perspective through a poetic social-realist lens. Her work has screened at BAFTA- and Oscar-qualifying festivals worldwide, including Locarno, Aesthetica, Dublin, and Uppsala, and has received awards such as a Shiny Award and Best International Short at Offline.

At LAMDA, she teaches Screen and Audio across the acting courses, with a focus on supporting actors to work truthfully, imaginatively, and confidently in front of the camera. She also brings extensive experience from teaching screen acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (on both the BA and MA Screen Acting programmes) and at Guildford School of Acting.

She originally trained in drama at Webber Douglas and began her performance education at the age of 11 at Sylvia Young Theatre School.